Thursday, October 24, 2024
This year, I made some decisions quickly. Each ended with me overpaying for an outcome that might have been different. Essentially, my intense, determined focus turned me into my own victim.
A common understanding is that humans often make fast decisions that will most likely have costly consequences. Another is that excitement’s effect can overcome an innate human need for caution.
I was following this year’s Nobel Prize award, which introduced me to Daniel Kahneman’s classic book, Thinking Fast and Slow, published in 2001. In it, he explains critical elements of human rationality and irrationality. Reviews of that book encouraged my brain’s rational side, and I ordered it.
The book’s main thesis is that there are two modes of thought: “System 1” is fast, instinctive, and emotional, while “System 2” is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.
I often find myself thinking and deciding rapidly. I wondered if I could gain insights from Kahneman’s work to help me pause such active, almost overwhelming thought processes. Essentially, by slowing thoughts appropriately, ideas might start regrouping.
Applying correct knowledge also could mean bypassing the awfulness of brain drain, money loss, and postmortem anxieties.
The book arrived yesterday, and today, I will start reading it.
Dear Friends: Ideas that may facilitate fast-moving thought processes are welcome. Diana
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